Thursday, January 14, 2016

Keyman, which has long helped Windows users add special keyboards to their machines, is now available in a beta version for Mac. The app required for users to make custom keyboards themselves is still only for Windows, but the OS X version of Keyman Desktop lets you download a large number of keyboards from the existing Keyman and SIL libraries.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

When using a hardware keyboard with the iOS 9 device, you need to go into Settings > General > Keyboard > Hardware Keyboards and match the layout with whatever your keyboard's key printing is. Unfortunately Apple supplies only a limited selection of such layouts, so it's possible an exact match may not be possible. For example, if your keyboard requires the British PC layout, you are out of luck. I think only one normal iOS keyboard has no hardware layout at all: Tamil.